St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-12

lain untouched in his lodging since four
days before. Under his expert d. r.
tons, six of the men who attended he
murder meeting of the previous nigh
quickly set to work then and there fill
ing glObular shells with dynamite.
Early as was the hour, Fischer was
also at work getting out the hand-billS
calling the Haymarket mass meeting.
The hand-bill's last words were:
"WOrkingmen, arm yourselves and ap-
pear in full forcew What Spies,
Schwab and other leaders were doing
that day may be partly inferred from
the
BURNING APPEALS FOR RESISTANCE
and calls ''To ArmsI' that appeared in
their newspaper organs that evening.
"Ruhe," penned by Spies own hand,
stared out of the Arbeiter Zeitung.
After the papers were off and their
editors had swallowed a hasty supper,
it is known that Spies. Parsons, Schwab,
FIelden, Fischer and other ruling
spirits, mostly members of the self-same
hall cOnclave, went into close session at
the International headquarters in the
Arbeiter Zeitung building, where re-
ports by messenger and telephone were
received as the moments sped.
Lingg'S crew of bomb-makers were
still assiduouSly at work. For some
reason he himself was unable to remain
with them all the time, and the evening
found him cursing their slow progress.
1t was some time after 7:3O %. m.-the
hour mentioned for the Haymarket
meeting to begin-when Lingg put into
little trunk what bombs were ready
some fifty or sixty-and started with his
burden for the appointed rendezvous, AN
anarchists saloon near by, known as
Netf's hall, 5S Clybourn avenue. He
was met on the way by messenger
who had come to hurry him along. The
trunk was left open in paSSage-Way Of
the saloon, and without more ado men
began dropping in quietly, alone or in
couples,
POCKETING A BOMB OR TWO
each, and vanishing into the darkness.
This celebrity may have somewhat mOlli-
fled Lingg, but his delay was not the
only stumbling of the reds.
Twenty-Five thousand people, the an
archiSt leaders estimated, would be
gathered together in the Haymarket.
This was not an eXtravagant expecta-
ton, when 1900 had been easily massed
near McCOrmick's. But fear of further
riOting kept pretty much everybody at
home except about 1900 men, nearly all
of them Enthusiastically anarchists. I'm
doubleday the smallness of the crowd
made the anarchist leaders pause. 1.-THE
social revolution" backed by mob of
wOrkmen $4,000 strong had changed to
a prospective fight between anarchists
alone on one side and the police in force
on the other. 1t was evident to the
most casual spectator in the Haymarket
that hitch existed somewhere, and ap-
parently the meetings. managers were
all completely at sea.
The great, dimly-lighted square was
decidedly uncanny scene, with its scat
tered groups of gesticulating, trampish-
looking occupants lining the sidewalks
and pouring in and out the rickety sur
rounding saloons. The Arbeiter Eel
tung conference of leaders had been
prolonged one, and when at last Spies,
Parsons, Fielden and the rest reached
the Haymarket square they seemed
BENT ON A WAITING GAME.
1t will probably never be known
whether the evident hesitancy was
caused by the delay of Lingg's confed-
crates. proposed abandonment of the
outbreak, or the hope that the police
would attack and attempt to disperSe
the dangerous-looking crowd before the
speaking should begin, thus relieving
the leaders from appearing to incite
riot.
Finally, an hour and a half late. Spies,
Parsons and Fielder addressed the
crowd, in the order named, using
wagon for their rOStrum. The first two,
in comparison with their usual ha-
rangues, were tame as pair of doves.
Gradually the crowd thinned out. No
police interfered, and the chance the
reds had waited months for was
nearly gone. The meeting would be a
laughing-stock to the public, the lead
ers would be discredited by even their
own ilk, and
THE RHUE SIGNAL.
would mean not the ''S0cial revolution"
begun, but the International association
collapsed.
Fielden was worthy the occasion. He
had been in the background on the
wagon with Schnaubelt, the bomb
thrOwer, Spies and other directing
minds, who saw plainly that something
must be done, and quickly. Therefore,
when his turn came, Fielder stepped
boldly to the front, discarding all pre-
tense of mildneSs. He electrified the
rabhle at once. The crowd swayed eX-
citedly backward and forward in the
narrow confines of DesplaineS street.
into which they had come from the open
square, and pressed eagerly closer to
the Pickering gas-lamp that lighted the
speakers straightforward face and
powerful form. When he tragically
urged the wrOught-up mob, standing in
Throttle and kill the law" the disguised
officers in the crowd saw the necessity Of
PROMPT ACTION,
and word was passed to their COM
mander.
Capt. Bonfield. following the plain di-
rectiOns of the state law covering eX-
actly such cases, gave orders to have
the meeting dispersed. Seven COM
panies of police, It's men, led by himself
and Capt. Ward, marched in platoOns,
extending from curb to curb, the short
distance on DeSplaines street from the
station to the speakers wagon. AS the
police approached, Fielden shouted to
the crowd: "Here comes the blood
NINE" Capt. Ward, in loud voice,
called out: ''In the name of the people
of the state of Illinois. command you
to peaceably dispense" Fielder, step
ping down from the wagon, gave the
ssruhe" exclamation: "We are peace
able" Instantly the bomb was thrown,
the first in free America.
A suffering spark in the air, on the
ground binding burst-that was all.
BlackneSS was everywhere. The pygmy
cracking of the pistol shots out from the
mob-jammed sidewalks, few tall
forms in the street rapidly closing to-
gether, the flash and smoke, OF volley
after yolley from them and the rear
platoons, then the din became hideOus
with the grooming of mangled men and
the yells of rage and fear in the wild
scramble for escape.
THE SEQUEL,
has stretched out to to-day. Foremost it
includes the death of seven bomb-slain
police and the slow recovery of sixty
officers wounded. The immediate ar
rest of all the chief malefactors, barring
Parsons alone, was followed by their
prompt arraignment for murder June
81 before Judge Joseph E. Gary, who